We needed to know what shape the sills are in, so even though it was 90 degrees and high humidity, we tackled taking off the shingles and the sheathing to expose the sills.
Once Martin determined that the sills don't need to be replaced (we still need to compare costs of tearing down and building new to keeping the old and jacking up the house), he filled in the gap left by the extra wide boards that were used as sheathing. He used lumber from the job to fill in between the sill and the sheathing board above the gap.
The boards were 1 x 12 and 14 to 15 feet long with just as wide but shorter boards to finish out the length of the sill. They were in great shape with really straight grain and definitely will be reused somewhere in the reconstruction process.
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